swags

Noun (1)

swag (plural swags)

1. (window coverings) A loop of draped fabric.
   • He looked in bewilderment at number 24, the final house with its regalia of stucco swags and bows.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN
2. Something that droops like a swag.
   • Detective Inspector Douglas Browne, the flesh of whose cheeks hung in swags, had the friendly aspect of a large brown-eyed dog.2022, Ian McEwan, Lessons, page 18
3. A place where water collects; a low, wet place where the land has settled.
   • Whenever the muddy water would accumulate in the swag the water from the well in question would become muddy[…] After the water in the swag had all disappeared through the sink-hole the well water would again become clear.1902, D. G. Simmons, “The Influence of Contaminated Water in the Development of Diseases”, in The American Practitioner and News, 34: 182
4. A pass, gap or sag in a mountain ridge.
   • […] the Stoll household were hoeing corn high up on a bench or "swag" of the mountain facing the home, where there was newer and richer ground than in the abandoned fields in its rear.1927, Lucy S. Furman, The Lonesome Road, page 3

Noun (2)

swag (uncountable)

1. (slang) Style; fashionable appearance or manner.
   • Now this dude got swag, and he was pushing up on me but, it wasn't like we was kicking it or anything!2009, Mark Anthony Archer, Exile, page 119

Noun (3)

swag (countable and uncountable, plural swags)

1. (uncountable, thieves' cant) Stolen goods; the booty of a burglar or thief; boodle.
   • The swag, is a term used in speaking of any booty you have lately obtained, be it of what kind it may, except money; as where did you lumber the swag? that is, where did you deposit the stolen property? To carry the swag is to be the bearer of the stolen goods to a place of safety.1819, James Hardy Vaux, Memoirs of James Hardy Vaux, volume 1, page 216

   Synonyms:

   boodle, booty, fang, gizzit, haul, hot property, loot, pelf, pickings, pillage

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